Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a view of Broadway looking north from Sixth Street, Los Angeles, June 1928. Automobiles and cable-cars navigate the road, lined to either side by sign-laden highrise buildings. To the right, the Broadway Arcade Building can be seen two buildings in from the foreground, the Silverwood clothing building in front of it. To the left the Swelldum and the Metropolitan are prominently visible. Other legible signs include: "The Owl Drug Co.", "No Parking 4:30PM to 6PM", "Entrance 6th Street", "Moss Gloves Hosiery", "Millinery", "The 5 [...] Store Walker", "Go", "The Trial with Mary [...]", "C.J. Pearce Manager", "The American Sign Co.", "Leighton Cafeteria", "Parker System Dentists", "Arcade Theater", "Examiner", "Birkel Music Co.", and "Printing".
Type
image
Format
4 photographs : photonegatives, transparency b&w 26 x 21 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs
Los Angeles--Streets--Broadway--5th to 6th Streets Electric railroads Buildings Cableways Roadways
Time Period
1928-06
Place
-118.24717,34.0509 -118.25117,34.04639 -118.25132,34.0464 -118.25138,34.04652 C.P. Pearce Examiner Maximes Metropolitan Owl Drug Company Swelldom Taits W. Sullivan School California Los Angeles South Broadway & West 6th Street USA
Source
1-2-117 [Microfiche number] 6973 [Accession number] CHS-6973 [Call number] California Historical Society [Contributing entity] isla id: S-68 [Identifying number]
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